Parenting a baby in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) is an extremely stressful and challenging experience. Over the past decade, technology has been developed to enable parents to connect with their babies even when they cannot be physically present at the bedside. This presentation explored how technology may be used to better support parents in the NICU as well as the challenges that may arise with such innovation.
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Dr. Jessica Duby is a neonatologist at Montreal Children’s Hospital (MCH) and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at McGill University. She obtained her medical degree at the University of Toronto and a master of public health at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Duby completed her pediatric residency at Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City and her neonatology fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto.
Her academic interests are in global health and family participation in health care. In the spring of 2020, she was awarded a Technology Grant from Pampers Canada and the Canadian Premature Babies Foundation. With this grant, she founded NeoConnect to virtually link families and their babies in the MCH Neonatal Intensive Care Unit through video chats and parental voice recordings.
